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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Orkney Neolithic
Midhowe Chambered Cairn Rousay at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Orkney Neolithic tradition, built c. 3500 BCE for 23 m stalled cairn longest in orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic · Welsh Neolithic
Pentre Ifan Dolmen Pembrokeshire at Wales, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Welsh Neolithic tradition, built c. 3500 BCE for 16 tonne capstone 3 slender uprights.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Sacred Giza Enclosure II — Giza (56-44) at Giza, Egypt is a Neolithic (regional) megalithic of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for enclosure and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Classical (regional) · Classical
Southern Giza Citadel Inner — Giza (56-07) at Giza, Egypt is a Classical (regional) megalithic of the Classical tradition, built c. 800 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill
Knap Hill Causewayed Enclosure at Wiltshire, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic of the Windmill Hill tradition, built c. 3700 BCE for causewayed enclosure on scarp.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Ses Roques — Son Bauló Sector 2 Dolmen in Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Santa Margalida, Spain is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megali…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Horizon Inca coastal 1470–1532 CE · Inca (coastal Pisco Chinchaysuyu)
Best-preserved polychrome Inca adobe palace enclosure on Pisco coast, 1470–1532 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Bryn Celli Ddu — North Outlier Standing Stone Row in Wales, Anglesey, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic att…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Menga Tholos — Annex Sub-Tumulus Sector in Andalusia, Málaga, Antequera, Spain is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic attribute…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
New Meroe Citadel B — Meroe (56-34) at Meroe, Sudan is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Upper Meroe Ridge South — Meroe (56-30) at Meroe, Sudan is a Neolithic (regional) megalithic of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇬🇲 Gambia · Megalith
Medieval Senegambian (750–1100 CE) · Senegambian Iron Age (Serer)
Kerbatch (Kerr Batch) is the second Gambian UNESCO stone-circle nucleus (1226) with 9 circles (3–5 m Ø) and V-shaped laterite pillars up to 1.7 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNA · Taş Tepeler
Kurt Tepe South Stone Hills at Şanlıurfa, Kurt Tepe, Turkey is a PPNA temple complex of the Taş Tepeler tradition, built c. 9500 BCE for southernmost stone hill lion statue.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Middle to Late Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation
Giant Sardinian nuraghe at Torralba — 21 m central tower with three bastions and corbelled chambers, 1600-1200 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Shetland Late Neolithic / Beaker
Shetland's largest Neolithic hall — 12×7 m heel-cairn hall with 3 m thick walls, c.2500 BCE.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Inca Late Horizon to Resistance 1463–1572 CE · Inca (Chinchaysuyu eastern frontier)
78-m kallanka—largest roofed Inca hall—within 2 km walled fortress, 1463–1572 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Classical (regional) · Classical
Royal Giza Ridge West — Giza (56-35) at Giza, Egypt is a Classical (regional) megalithic of the Classical tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Aksum — North Stele Park Stele 4 Plinth in Tigray, Aksum, North Stele Park, Ethiopia is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic att…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Broch of Gurness Orkney at Orkney, United Kingdom is a Iron Age megalithic of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 200 BCE for broch with external village and ditch.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Bronze Age to Iron Age Talayotic (c.1200–123 BCE) · Talayotic (Menorcan Bronze–Iron)
Trepucó (Talayotic c.1200–123 BCE) 2 km south of Maó is Menorca's largest talayotic village, 5 ha with central 17-m high truncated cone talaiot 20 m diameter and outer walls 4 m thick enclosing a…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Altmark Megalithic Grave Beesewege in Saxony-Anhalt, Altmark, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Carnac Neolithic
Er Grah Tumulus Locmariaquer at Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic megalithic of the Carnac Neolithic tradition, built c. 4500 BCE for 140 m long tumulus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Old Giza Ridge I — Giza (56-45) at Giza, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Cromlech of Xerez — East Axial Loop in Alentejo, Monsaraz, Telheiro, Portugal is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic attributed…
